Self-study
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Summary
If a nation has a successful economy, it must have a flourishing national scientific community. If the nation has a flourishing national community, it needs to have many young people who are excited enough about science to want to become scientists. If this excitement exists, there must be good communication between scientists and the public.
Strongly Supported Conclusions
Successful economy -> flourishing scientific community -> young people excited - > good communication between scientists and the public.
You can make any valid inference along this chain.
17.
The science teacher's statements provide ███ ████ ███████ ███ █████ ███ ██ ███ ██████████
a
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Scientists communicating with the public is not a sufficient condition that can trigger any valid inferences. If you got this wrong, practice conditional indicators, mapping, and following lawgic chains.
b
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While young people's excitement about science is necessary for a national scientific community to flourish, there is no evidence that the number of these students is principally important.
c
No nation can ████ █ ██████████ ███████ ██████ ██ ████ █████ ██████████ ████ ████████████ ████ ████ ███ ███████
This is supported because it is a valid inference on the formal logic chain (Successful economy -> good communication). If you struggled to map this, practice mapping with two conditional indicators.
d
It is essential ██ ███ ████████ ███████ ████ ████ ██ ███ █████ ██████ ██ ████ ██████ ███ ███ ███████ █████ ███████ ██████ ████████████ ███████████
This is too strong to support. The stimulus only says that many young people need to be excited about science, not “most.”
e
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This is not supported because the stimulus never gives conditions for the success of any scientific endeavor.